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What's wrong with my script! Shading Nodes won't place!
Currently trying to wrap my head around why my script won't place my Brightness/Contrast Node in the desired location and configuration.
Shaders for all materials are currently arranged and directly ...
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Find "2D plane" shape and use it for a shader? [closed]
Hard to explain, but I am trying to achieve a traditional 2d animation look and want to have the pink grain shader shown in the pic copy the shape path of the object. And be able to move it, ...
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In material nodes, can I use Texture Coordinate and vector math instead of drivers to copy rotation from an object?
I have a material that uses a rotation that I get with drivers from an object. This method works but I wonder if I can avoid drivers, by using some combination of the Texture Coordinate node that ...
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Streamline Shader using Shader Nodes
I have created these streamlines in geometry nodes
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However, I am limited as these streamlines are geometry and the vertices/polygons really start to add up.
There is a way to do ...
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What does the factor in HSV node do?
What does the factor in HSV node do mathematically? Does it just multiply final value of node's calculations with values connected to factor pin? Or it uses ...
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Is it possible to isolate specular highlights in shader nodes?
I am trying to have Blender replicate a shader effect from Valve's Source Engine that applies color mapping to an object's specular highlights. Is it possible to extract/isolate the brightness of the ...
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What math is the "Vector Transform" node doing under the hood?
I found a tutorial for a parallax shader that starts with connecting the "Incoming" vector-output of a "Geometry" node to the input of a "Vector Transform" node with its ...
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How do I make the process of switching between mix shader images easier or faster?
I have images that I would like to switch between in animation. They are directional movements of a 2D character and use Mix Shaders to keyframe to another direction. I was wondering if there is a ...
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I have a painterly node group with brush direction input. I would like to be able to randomise across the model instead of being uniform please
I have managed to obtain a node group for a painterly style material which is close to perfection. However the brush stroke direction which is controlled is completely uniform. I would like to ...
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How does ColorRamp Constant work and why is it different in my case as in tutorial?
I'm following this tutorial but I'm wondering why the configuration of my ColorRamp node is different. In the video it's way to the left.
But in my case it's on the right and I'm not able to scroll ...
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Orient a texture in a consistent manner, without relying on UV unwrapping [duplicate]
Without using UV wrapping, and only relying on shader nodes, is there any way to orient the shingles as indicated on the image before?
I'm looking to not use UV wrapping as this roof geometry is ...
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Hiding the Voronoi texture from the bottom of my chocolate chip cookie
I'm making a chocolate chip cookie in blender using two Principled BDSF materials, one for the cookie material and one for the chocolate chip material. I'm using Voronoi texture and color ramp and mix ...
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Texture previews properly in material preview but not render preview
material preview and object shaderI have set up a texture as described here Tapering Textures with Nodes which works in material preview but which renders and bakes black. I have set up the render ...
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I would like to change the color of the instances based on the scale of the object
I have create a planisphere, and I would like to place some dots on it. Once they are distributed with Geometry nodes (based on a BW map) I would like to change the color based on the scale of the ...
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Convert shader displacement to geometry in blender 4.2.3 to 3d print
Convert shader displacement to geometry in blender 4.2.3 to 3d print.
I have several equations I want to fit in different size shapes (This example is in a mesh circle)
How can convert the shader ...
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How to combine lighting while maintaining vibrant texture colours with toon shaders
I’m very new to creating materials in Blender and I’m trying an adaptive cel-shaded shader which allows me to change out material textures inspired by Borderlands 2 aesthetic.
I’m wondering if it’s ...
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Reduce glass reflections
I want to make a glass with some object inside.
But the way it is now, the outside reflections are too strong, making it harder to see the object inside (as in the wall on the right side of the ...
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Best Way to Link Node Values Across Materials in Blender?
I'm looking for a more efficient way to update multiple materials that share similar nodes and values. I have six different materials, each built with the same node setup but with different base ...
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Distort object coordinates into a spiral
Good day guys, I'm failing misserably on distorting the coordinates for a texture in a spiral pattern for an object, my target is to display a spiral of clouds onto a sphere, and those clouds to look ...
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How to use Geometry Nodes to transfer normal attributes from a Mesh object to a geometry-node based fur system?
Pretty much that. How do I use Geometry Nodes to transfer normal attributes from a Mesh object to a geometry-node based fur system? I need to do this to achieve a stylized hair shader for geometry ...
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How do I go about adding a sinusoidal value to Layer Weight facing value?
I've been trying to recreate a shading style from an drawing someone made, and I feel like I'm about 90% there. Just can't seem to visualize what I need to do next.
The intended result:
Current ...
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Shader Combine Backface Cull and cull shadow
I have an unusually specific case where I want the backside of faces to be invisible to shadows as well as the camera. I got this far in getting it to cull only one side of the shadows, but I don't ...
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Displacement Map deformes the Mesh wierd. Any idea what causes the problem?
As you can see I created a displacement map and imported it into blender. This is the important part of my map, that causes wierd deforming.
on the second image you can see the result of the ...
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What is the subtle error here in recreating the metallic effect with a specular BSDF?
I'm attempting to recreate the properties of the metallic workflow using the Specular BSDF shader, in order to be able to better control certain portions of it.
Here's what I have so far. The orbs on ...
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How do I bake my image texture which has a layer weight node?
I have been trying to bake this texture using combined bake and transmission bake but nothing is working, here is my shader nodes:
As you can see I have tried many different BSDFs and alterantives to ...
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Ambient occlusion falloff
I am trying to work with the Ambient Occlusion node in Blender 4.2.0 using Cycles to try and get a nice gradient falloff on my background, however it's creating large triangular shadows in the corners ...
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Use of volume nodes for hair shader
The papers Physically-accurate fur reflectance: modeling, measurement and rendering and An efficient and practical near and far field fur reflectance model discuss physically based fur shading and ...
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Transparency Issue With Overlaid Shader
So I'm stuck on getting a surface imperfection texture to be masked over my other procedural shader, anything I try it comes out with the black background or if it is transparent, it's because it's ...
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How do I get my object with a toon shader to have cast shadow's on it behave like it's shader?
When my object with a toon shader is in the cast shadow of another object the shadow is fuzzy. I want the cast shadow to be there, but have it follow the rules of the toon shader so its a hard shadow.
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How to recreate this "wet flame" effect coming out of an object?
I only finished the donut tutorial and playing around with some models, so I'm pretty much a noob, please bare with me.
Is it possible to recreate this kind of effect on an object? To me it looks like ...
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I'm creating cigarette smoke using Quick Smoke. Is there a way to make the smoke appear more wispy?
I'm trying to create cigarette smoke using Quick Smoke but it looks too much like a cloud of smoke. Is there a way to make it appear more wispy?
*image is a Cycles render using Blender version 4.02.
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How to reproduce missing Specular functionality in Blender 4.2?
Some important shader functions to control special values were removed in Blender 4.2. The transmission roughness for example. There is no way to reproduce it. This is important, if you update old ...
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Viewport Shading preview different than Render
I'm a complete newbie at Blender, trying to teach myself with web tutorials, and I'm completely stumped on this issue.
The material shading render preview shows the effect I'm looking for, metallic ...
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Material makes one side of the object go black no matter how I turn it
When I use this material one of the sides of the mesh turns black. When I turn the object the side that was black aquires color but the one that replaces it goes black. Other materials work fine, but ...
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Toon shader broken in Eevee 4.2
System Information
Operating system: Windows-11 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3070. Pilote version : 560.70
Blender Version: Blender 4.2 LTS
Hi guys! The new Eevee version is out and I ...
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Deform a volume ray
I'm very new to blender so sorry in advance if my question is easy to answer.
I want to create a god ray effect and followed a youtube video using a Voronoi texture.
Here is the result:
The results ...
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Maintaining consistent random colors for animated cars in Blender
I have a follow-up question regarding my earlier inquiry: Traffic animation with cars along a curve
I want to animate cars driving along a curve and I want the colors of the cars to be random. So I ...
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Extract code from Blender Shaders
Still pretty new to blender here, but wow, i'm really enjoying working with it. Next question i've tried to search for information on, is: Is there any way to extract the input- and output-values from ...
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Cycles and OSL : how to implement a custom closure
I'd like to implement a custom shader in OSL (Open Shading Language) to reproduce the Hapke reflectance model (it allows to visualize the opposition surge effect, visible on the moon for example).
I ...
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How to change/invert color of image texture
I would like these bricks to be white instead of black. Adding a color ramp or invert node causes it to lose the enamel quality that I am trying to maintain, and makes it greyish instead of white. I ...
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Better ways to do stylized low resolution shadows?
What options / tools are there to create stylized shadows in Blender?
I have been able to find a method that works in the way I want, but at the cost of adding thousands of extra triangles to my ...
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How to create scatter shader? [duplicate]
I am trying to make a scatter shader that will scatter an image.
The problem I am facing is that the images are clipping at the border.
I want this kind of result.
I found a similar solution but the ...
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Struggling with transparent image textures and Shaders
I'm attempting to create low-poly playstation style models and I've encountered a rough patch in my process.I'd appreciate any assistance as I can't find any resources to assist with the issue.
for ...
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Vector math effect not displaying on my model?
I'm trying to achieve a similar effect to this
However, my nodes look identical to the one in the youtube video yet I see no effect happening? I've also attached my nodes here
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How can I make shiny fish scales like these in blender?
I want to make a mermaid character whose scales are iridescent and very reflective/shiny, but without the ugly and unwanted reflection of nearby objects, just like real fish scales. I tried to do it ...
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Bake after Principle BSDF
Some materials in Blender Kit can't be baked. Blender can make bake texture only with bsdf node. But when I use Ambient Occlusion or materials that use mix shader after Principle BSDF I can't connect ...
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Adding multiple Image texture on both sides of plane
I am new to Blender and have to read a lot of thread to add multiple image texture on both sides of plane. I do this in editor nodes only and you can still edit UV for each image seperately.
I want to ...
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How can I use convolution matrix in Shader Node
I want to use a convolution matrix so that I can create a Gaussian Blur for the image without it having too much noise.
I saw someone upload it to BlendSwap and also something else here on ...
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How to animate the position of a material along the "mesh line"
I want to create the effect of current flowing through cables. I want the current to flow over several curves from the beginning to the end of the cable. I created a material with a mix shader and set ...
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How to copy shading maps but still be able to change materials?
I'm creating a little meat man, and I want to have his body use mostly the same shading maps as his head, but with a different texture for me to paint his splotches on for his body. When I copy the ...
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